Sabethes

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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| image = Sabethes Cyaneus Mosquito.png

| image_caption = Female Sabethes cyaneus

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| taxon = Sabethes

| authority = Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827

| type_species = Sabethes locuples

| type_species_authority = Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827

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Sabethes or canopy mosquitos are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in plant cavities.Ralph E. Harbach. 1994. The subgenus Sabethinus of Sabethes (Diptera: Culicidae). Systematic Entomology, 19: 207-234; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227701366_The_subgenus_Sabethinus_of_Sabethes_Diptera_Culicidae. The type species is Sabethes locuples, first described by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1827.Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy. 1827. Essai sur la Tribu des Culicides. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, III: 390-413; 411-412, {{cite web |url=http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/110700-0.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-05-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301052228/http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/110700-0.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-01 }}.

They are generally conspicuously ornamented with shining metallic scales.J. Lane. 1953. Neotropical Culicidae, Volume II -- Tribe Culicini, Deinocerites, Uranotaenia, Mansonia, Orthopodomyia, Aedomyia, Aedes, Psorophora, Haemagogus, tribe Sabethini, Trichoprosopon, Wyeomyia, Phoniomyia, Limatus and Sabethes, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pp. 553-1112; 1055-1098; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/074300-11.pdf.John N. Belkin. 1968. Mosquito Studies (Diptera, Culicidae) IX. The type specimens of New World mosquitoes in European museums. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 3(4): 1-69; 29; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/008500-9.pdf, accessed 2 Mar 2016. The antennae of the females of some Sabethes species have long, dense, flagellar whorls resembling those of the males of most other genera of mosquitoes.

Sabethes species mosquitoes occur in Central and South America.Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Sabethes" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.wrbu.org/generapages/sabethes.htm, accessed 2 Mar 2016.